COMMERCE 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumerism, Civi-Dt, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act
21 Jun 2016
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The business environment consists of the that either help or hinder the development of environment fields include; legal, economic, competitive and global environments. The legal environment is an external dimension that. Therefore, managers must be aware of the legal impact on business and business decisions. Laws are derived from four sources: uncontrollable factors business. The business technological, social, influences business. systems and their the constitution act; 4. federal and provincial statutes (also called acts or legislation ); and federal and provincial agencies. The constitution act defines the powers that can be exercised by the different levels of government (federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal). Canada has a legislature in each province and territory to deal with local matters and a parliament in ottawa to make laws for all of canada. These two levels are generally mutually exclusive, although federal powers prevail in the event of a conflict.
